USWNT seems to be betting on veterans — not its plentiful young stars — to capture Olympic gold

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While the team has a new coach in the Macedonian-American Vlatko Andonovski, it looks remarkably similar to that of Jill Ellis, who left the job last year after a second straight World Cup title. In December, Andonovski held an identification camp in Florida, inviting 24 players who hadn't made the 2019 World Cup roster to do his due diligence, to get a better sense of the player pool. Yet when it came time for the new head coach to submit his roster for this qualifying tournament, 18 of the 20 names on it had also been to the World Cup.

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